Botryoidal Quartz Cluster

One of least common formations to be found in any crystal type, this is Botryoidal Quartz Cluster.  I bought a selection of very unusual clusters found in the mines along with the Amethyst caves. Botryoidal means the crystal has shape like cotton balls. It also has a yellow sprinkling of tiny crystals through the green. Colouring is probably chlorite.

The formation provides further perceptiveness to situations awakening inherent talents and adroitness. Read more about the shape.Use it build the heart’s openness to new experiences and relationships after healing hurts. There is some lovely patterning in the agate matrix which adds strength and courage to its healing help.

Web buyers are the first to see this group as I haven’t even taken them into the shops! Enjoy this botryoidal quartz cluster or buy it for a collector of the unusual.

Weight	323 g
Dimensions	128 × 84 × 43 mm
Colour	Green / Shamrock
Country Crystal Grew	Brazil
Size	Medium

Healing Properties

Benefits of Clear Quartz and Common Variations

• Alternate names: Crystal, Quartz, Rock Crystal
• This Section covers: Clear Quartz, Peruvian Needle Quartz, Chlorite in Quartz, Cacoxenite in Quartz, Garden Quartz
• Other Sections cover: Rose Quartz, Amethyst, Rutilated Quartz, Lemurian Seed Quartz, Herkimer Diamond, Hematite/Hematoid Quartz, etc

General Clear Quartz Properties

• Absorbs, releases and regulates energy.
• Excellent at unblocking it.
• Amplifies other crystals beside it.
• Master healer for anything.
• Releases all colours so excellent energy balancer & raises energy to the highest possible level.
• Helps release distractions & brings spiritual peace.
• Assists concentration & unlocks memory.
• Aids connection as it enhances your spiritual abilities allowing images, re-collections and feelings to surface so you can utilise them or clear them.
• Increases clarity of thought.
• Said to clear and stimulates immune and nervous systems and regulate body’s energy flow.

Note facet shape adds to properties read about the faces here.

• Primary Chakra: ALL
• Astrological sign(s): ALL
• Vibration: Number 4

Additional Properties of Variations

Peruvian Needle Clear Quartz

From the Andes Mountains

• High vibrational quartz raises consciousness and clarity of thought to a new level,
• supporting and motivating a new stage of successful spiritual growth!
• Since mid decade, a new portal of conscious opened in the area allowing an even high vibration of new information to come through (Shamarah and kryon.com).

Cacoxenite in Quartz

Beautiful tufts / strands of gold, yellow and brown - often fanning. Mainly found in amethyst or quartz from Brazil Cacoxenite in quartz raises spiritual awareness and "provides a loving and ethereal connection between all of the universe. It encourages a conscious awareness of the significance in random events to guide us on the right path, and in sensing the essence of the Creator in the beauty of nature and the kindness of people." [Melody, 177][Eason, 105]Hall, 81]

Chlorite in Quartz

Green spots and splashes in clear quartz. Most often from Brazil. Emerald green colour coated all over a quartz cluster is painted quartz from China - the quartz is usually a milky quartz that wouldn't have sold easily.

• Heart healing from wounds of the past.
• Allowing a strong heart-mind and emotional-intellectual connection and balance.

Garden Quartz / Lodolite

Inclusions may be one or more of the following: hematite, chlorite, carbon, kaolinite, clay, etc. Most often from Brazil.

• Helps you connect to the Earth, her wonder and her support to uplift.
• Develops your imagination so psychic abilities improve.
• Connects to past life issues more easily so the shadow-self understood, forgiveness given and the fears released.
• Makes better your vulnerability when disappointed in relationships.
• Helps you move into another act of life away from standing in the wings of your own stage.
• Offers change at the right time so you enjoy new adventure.
• Said to assist with congestion & obstruction problems.

Geological Information

Geological Information of Quartz

Quartz is a very common mineral in its crystal form as well as combined with other minerals (like tiger eye, aventurine, citrine..)

General Identification

• Type: Mineral
• Class: Silicates
• Category: Oxides
• Formula: SiO2 Silicon Dioxide
• Crystal System: Trigonal
• Habit: 6-sided prism ending in 6-sided pyramid (typical), drusy, fine-grained to microcrystalline, massive
• Mohs Hardness:  7, less if impurities
• Luster / Diaphaneity: Transparent to nearly opaque, Vitreous, in massive: waxy or dull.
• Colour: Colorless through various colors to black. Each colour usually has a different name like Amethyst, Rose Quartz ...

Special Notes

• Pure quartz, traditionally called rock crystal or clear quartz, is colorless and transparent or translucent
• Commonly occurs in igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks.
  • Often found in mineral veins with metal ores.
• Often been used for hardstone carvings,
• Many additional properties occur depending on mineral inclusions, coatings, shape, facets, cluster shapes, location, unusual influences during growth and coatings.
• When contaminants are added to the process the crystals take on a yellow, red, or other tint.
• Following is a list of contaminating elements and related colour hues:
  • carbon - black
  • cobalt - green/blue
  • chromium - green/blue
  • copper - green/blue
  • iron oxides - red, pink, brown, orange and yellow
  • manganese - pink/orange
  • manganese oxides - blackish/yellow
  • titanium - pink
  • lithium - pink/purple
  • Other factors affecting colour
  • white - minute fluid inclusions of gas, liquid
  • blue - magnesio-riebeckite, dumortierite or tourmaline inclusions

Additional Information About Varieties

Tibetan/Sichuan Quartz:

• Said to be found in the three areas bordering Tibet and China actually many now from the Sechuan province.
• Often has black inclusions which may be are all magnesium or carbon.